IChurch · listed 1967Church of St AndrewPhoto: Erp · CC BY-SA 3.0
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History of Colyton · Historic England
65 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Colyton’s built-up area, 335 for every 10,000 residents. 63 of Colyton’s listed buildings are Grade II. 26% of its homes were built before 1919. Colyton grades A for history.
Listed buildings
65
335 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
26%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Colyton
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.
The map
Where Colyton’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
65 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I1 Grade II*63 Grade II
Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.
Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Colyton
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II*
The Grade II* listed building in Colyton
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*House · listed 1967Great HousePhoto: Roger Cornfoot · CC BY-SA 2.0
What’s protected
Most of Colyton’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas45
Walls, gates & bridges8
Churches, chapels & priories5
Public & civic buildings4
Memorials, crosses & tombs2
Inns, shops & warehouses1
45 entries (69%) are houses, terraces and villas. 5 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.
Grade II
63 Grade II listed buildings
Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 63 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
AltheaApril Cottage GreenwaysBerry HouseBrerewood House the VicarageBrick HouseChantry BridgeChantry Cottage the ChantryChurchyard Gates and Gate Piers to South West of ChurchCole's HouseCole's MillColyton CottageColyton HouseColyton Post OfficeColyton War MemorialColyton Youth ClubCombe Cottage Combe HouseCompass CottageCorner CottageEglantine Market Place Gallery Valetta HouseFermain HouseFormer Methodist ChapelFountainGarden Boundary Wall to East of the Vicarage and Brerewood HouseGarden Boundary Walls and Two Pairs of Gate Piers at Colyton HouseGarton HouseGeleenHamlyn's TanneryKingdom CottageLauristonLilac PlaceLondon HouseMethodist ChurchNumber 2 and Hillhead CottageOld Church HouseOld Courthouse Ye Old CourthouseOroolong House Thame HouseOutbuilding Immediately North West of the CottageParkside Antiques, Merchant's Tea Rooms and Merchant's HousePremises of H Rendell and SonPremises of R a Dyke, ChemistQueen's HayeRidgeway HouseRidgeway RowRose CottageSt ClementsStables North of Colyton HouseSunday SchoolSundial Immediately South East of Colyton HouseSunnysideThe Colcombe Castle HotelThe CottageThe FoundryThe Old BakehouseThe White CottageTickensWall Adjoining South West of Colyton Cottage Along Sidmouth RoadWall Adjoining South of the Chantry and Chantry CottageWall and Gateway South West of the Great HouseWalls North East and North West of Old Church HouseWhite Hart Cottage and St Marys (formerly White Hart House)35, Queen Street6, Vicarage Street9, St Andrews Square
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 18% of Colyton
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Colyton 197014 ha
14 hain conservation areas, of 76 ha inside the built-up area.
60 of the 65 listed buildings stand in one.
Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.
How the list grew
31 of Colyton’s 65 listed buildings were added in 1967
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1967 · 311984 · 31
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 31 entries were listed in 1967, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Colyton grades A for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (68 points, 351 per 10,000 residents)More than 87% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (26%)More than 77% of UK towns
Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.
Homes by age
26% of Colyton’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
24%
Before 1900
1.5%
1900–18
7.2%
1919–29
7.2%
1930s
7.6%
1945–54
3.1%
1955–64
11%
1965–72
11%
1973–82
12%
1983–92
6.3%
1993–99
3.1%
2000–08
2.4%
2009–15
3.4%
2016–25
ColytonEngland & Wales
24% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1983–92, which added 12% of today’s homes.
Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (13 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Towns its size
Colyton has the 90th most Grade I buildings of 1,538 towns its size
Places of 1,000–3,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Colyton
In brief
Colyton in brief
Old houses are part of Colyton’s character: 26% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 65 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. Per resident, it has more listed heritage than 87% of UK towns. Only 89 of the 1,538 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.
A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. Most entries on the list, 69%, are houses, terraces and villas. Beyond that, Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet (1731) and George Eyre Evans (1857) were born here before 1900.
Questions about Colyton’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Colyton?
Historic England lists 65 buildings inside Colyton’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 63 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Colyton?
One: Church of St Andrew.
How many conservation areas are there in Colyton?
1, covering about 14 hectares of the town. The largest is Colyton.
When were Colyton’s buildings listed?
The first in 1967; the most, 31, in 1967.
How old are the homes in Colyton?
26% of homes were built before 1919 and 41% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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Sources: Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only · Historic England conservation areas (supplied by local planning authorities; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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